The most dangerous warning from Baghdad to the region on Kirkuk

[Ayna-Baghdad] The Prime Minister and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces Haider al-Abadi chaired the meeting of the Ministerial Council for National Security.

“The priority is still to end the presence of gangs and encourage terror in all areas of Iraq,” the council said, according to a statement by the media office of the prime minister.

The council explained during the meeting that “it indicates the pursuit of the parties implementing the referendum unconstitutional in the Kurdistan region to create a case of military mobilization in various claims, hoping to mislead the citizens of the Kurds and their view of the serious consequences of the referendum, and that his truth is not for the benefit of the Kurds, but for the interests of the dominant region And its resources and an attempt to abort the crystallization of any official Kurdish position seeking treatment. ”

The National Security Council warned against “serious escalation and provocations by forces belonging to the Kurdistan region outside the borders of the province, which wants to drag the country into internal strife in order to achieve its goal of dismantling Iraq and the region in order to establish a state on an ethnic basis.”

“The insistence on holding the referendum outside the constitution despite the objection of the partners of the homeland and outside the national partnership and standing against the international community shows that there is a deliberate intention to resort to force and impose the status quo,” the council said.

“The extension of the region’s militants to areas beyond the borders defined in the constitution by force of arms and threats and the persecution and displacement of the people living in the majority non-Kurdish areas and prevent the return of displaced persons in a bid to change the demographic drag the country into a devastating conflict.”

The Ministerial Council on National Security also warned against the mobilization of armed elements outside the regular security system in Kirkuk from powerful parties that do not belong to Kirkuk and the incursion of irregular forces, some belonging to an organization PKK [Turkish], considering it a dangerous escalation can not be tolerated and it represents a declaration of war on the rest Iraqis and regular federal forces. ”

He pointed out that” while we are keen on the peace throughout the country, the federal government and regular forces will do their duty to defend the citizens from various sects of the Iraqi people, including the Kurds, and defend the sovereignty of Iraq and its unity in cooperation with the community The Crown “.

The Ministerial Council for National Security and stressed the government ‘s determination to work for the return of displaced persons to all areas captured by troops from the territory by force, as well as accelerate the completion of the return of the rest of the displaced to other areas liberated by the armed forces of Daesh terrorist gangs.”

The Council reaffirmed that the disputed areas will be managed by federal forces and local forces under the leadership of the federal authority.

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